I have to write a paper on "the ten events of the last decade that most changed the business environment"... Since it's 2012, and I want to include the obvious 9/11, I'm stretching it and going back to 2000. Any suggestions? Here's what I've come up with thus far..

9/112008 financial / housing crisisinternet and social mediaOil pricesEnron/LehmanG20Iraq/Afghan warsNatural Gas explorationObama's election (maybe I dont want to include this due to my liberal professor and my conservative views...)Invention of Smartphones

Should stretch it to 1999. That's when the economy was placed into a blender, spinning on high, that was super-heated and rocket-propelled at the same time into a turbine jet engine. Then you can appear unbiased as it was Clinton and the Republicans that did it. You'll have a huge range of dogcrap to discuss and how it was really the single most destructive thing to our up-until-2008 "pretty stable fiat economy."

IF you could get that book out of the library it would help give you details. It talks about a lot of technical innovations and how they're being applied in business. (I remember a big section about some of the things Wal Mart was doing)